Word: fractionalized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...completely new to us. When you spend your life outfitting patients with the Joe Dokes Knee Prosthesis, you get a glimmer that Joe Dokes himself must be making some money on the thing. But there are 17,000 orthopedists in the U.S., and with this convention a large fraction of us came to the simultaneous realization that just about all of our teachers and mentors - the surgeons we hold in high regard, who do the important research, who work in the teaching programs, who write the papers and give us these lectures - are "consultants...
...develop a system that can shoot down one missile, but that is a long cry from developing a system that does not leak," he says. Such shortcomings in a nuclear defense system clearly would be disastrous. Even if a system were 90% effective, the leakage of just a fraction of Moscow's 8,500 or so warheads could be devastating. Says Kosta Tsipis, co-director of a program in science and technology at M.I.T.: "The critical failure of all these defensive systems is that they must be perfect. Less than that and they are ruinous. What the President is offering...
...processors, photo-editing programs and games lack the rich features of their retail counterparts--the word processor in Google Docs, for example, has just 11 fonts vs. the dozens in Microsoft Word--chances are you won't miss what's missing. After all, most people use only a small fraction of the features available. "Software went through a period where it got way too complex. We have a concept that focuses on simplicity," says Dave Girouard, vice president and general manager of Google's free Web applications...
...final hours have not been a time for nuance, especially with polls suggesting a race too close to call in both states. Clinton rolled across economically struggling Ohio this past weekend in a bus emblazoned "Solutions for America," giving feisty speeches to crowds that - while they were only a fraction of the size that Barack Obama was drawing - seemed as intense and determined as any she has drawn to date in this campaign. In depressed Youngstown, she appeared with hometown favorite Kelly "The Ghost" Pavlik, the middleweight boxing champion, and declared: "I'm a fighter, a doer and a champion...
...less famous but more interesting artists. Last spring’s Mates of State concert in the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub was well-attended and fun, proving that even Harvard students are capable of appreciating good music in an intimate setting. Either way, the minute fraction of the student body on the CEB should not be the only people able to voice their partialities. If the CEB (hopefully) opens their ears to undergraduate feedback, perhaps they should also open students’ ears to the music of their peers. A CEB-sponsored concert featuring Harvard bands would...